Premiere auto ducking isn't actually ducking

Question

Just found out about this feature and figured it was too good to be true... of course it was..

as far as I can see it doesn't actually duck the audio like real side-chaining would do, it looks like it just approximates new gain values for a clip, which I could do by ear quickly instead of fiddling with the audio duck controls, of which I can't get a different result out of them even when clocking them to their extremes.

So it look like it doesn't actually work, is there a way to actually get clips to respond to other clip using this? I clicked the generate keyframes option and saw almost no keyframes, which makes sense considering I'm hardly hearing any change to the clip.

Is there a secret to getting it to actually work correctly, or is this the feature at it's best?

dukeeastwood · Answer

So, by watching the audio mixer i can see a value change at the top of the volume slider for the effected channels, so I guess Premiere thinks it's doing ducking... I have it set the hard audio duck against loud dialog and the result even with all the settings maxed doesn't produce an acceptable result. Key framing the audio just by looking at the waveform produces a better result.

Adobe should switch to something that actually works and make it accessible in the mixer as a side chain to another track... I also had trouble with this ponderous "select the clips you want as music" workflow. I had to re-select the same clips over and over and reapply the effect to them, then check them individually because selecting them all did not apply the effect to all of them.

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